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Email: *	[email protected]
Surname: *	Du Mont
First Name: *	Janice
Job Title: *	Research Scientist
Institution: *	Women's College Research Institute
Address *	790 Bay Street, 7th Floor Toronto, Ontario
Post/Zip Code *	M5G 1N8

Preferred presentation mode *

oral

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Yes

Title of paper *

Covert drugging of sexual assault victims in Canada

Authors: *

Janice Du Mont, Sheila Macdonald, Nomi Rotbard, Deidre Bainbridge, Eriola Asllani, Norman Smith,6 and Marsha M. Cohen

Presenting Author: *

Janice Du Mont

Topic(s): *

Intimate partner and sexual violence

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Key Words

sexual assault screening drugs alcohol

Abstract Content *

Objective
To determine which persons reporting sexual assault to hospital-based treatment centres may have been covertly drugged and to provide information about whether a sexual assault may have occurred.

Method
Each consecutive person presenting to one of seven sexual assault treatment centres was screened for drug-facilitated sexual assault (DFSA). Urine was collected and tested for central nervous system active drugs. Oral, vaginal, and/or rectal swabs were tested for male DNA. Unexpected drugs were defined as those not reported as having been voluntarily consumed within the previous 72 hours. Positive swabs for unexpected DNA were determined by whether consensual intercourse had occurred in the previous week.

Findings
184 of 882 eligible participants met suspected DFSA criteria. Mean age was 25.8 years (SD = 8.5), 96.2% were female and 64.7% White. Urine samples were positive for drugs in 44.9% of cases, alcohol in 12.9%, and both drugs and alcohol in 18.0%. Unexpected drugs were found on toxicological screening in 87 of 135 (64.4%) cases with a positive drug result and included cannabinoids (40.2%), cocaine (32.2%), amphetamine (13.8%), MDMA (9.2%), ketamine (2.3%), and GHB (1.1%). The finding of male DNA was unexpected in 30 (46.9%) of 64 cases with a positive DNA finding.

Conclusion
Among persons presenting to sexual assault treatment centres with suspicions of DFSA, the presence of unexpected substances and DNA was common, lending support for victims belief that they had been intentionally drugged and sexually assaulted. Most unexpected drugs found were not those typically described as date rape drugs.

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